Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and each mind perceives a different beauty. One person may even perceive deformity, where another is sensible of beauty; and every individual ought to acquiesce in his own sentiment, without pretending to regulate those of others.

Part I, Essay 23: Of The Standard of Taste - Essays, Moral, Political, and Literary (1741-2; 1748)